i think that, you know, diana ross was not billie holiday, but then again, i don't think even diana ross claim. but the misrepresentation of the facts of strange fruit, i think, are really unforgivable. what happened in the movie-- and i'm sure that there are people out there who remember the scene in the movie-- she's on a bus, touring in the south sometime in the 1930s with her band, and she gets off the bus to relieve herself. and she walks over a hill, and there's this procession, this sort of procession of bedraggled-looking, poor african americans. i think there's a horse and cart or something, and it's clear that they're coming from a lynching. i think she goes over the hill, and she may even see the evidence of a lynching. and then you hear the strains of strange fruit sounding in the background, and she gets this kind of mesmerized look on her face as if lyrics are taking shape in her mind. and the clear implication is that she's thinking of strange fruit and composing it at that very moment, none of which was true. that's the first sin in the movie. the second sin is that they